Asia's Security
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: How Should Asia's Security Be Approached? -- The importance of Asia's security -- Asia's evolution -- The extent of twenty-first-century Asia -- The meaning of security -- The meaning of Asia's security -- Asia's regional security -- The organisation of this book -- 2 Peace: Why Does Asia Seem More Secure? -- Interstate and external explanations of Asia's peace -- Peace at hand? -- Military power: balance or imbalance? -- Internal explanations -- Independence and Asia's postcolonial world -- Asia's interstate-intrastate nexus -- Conclusion -- 3 Power: Is It All About the USA and China? -- Great powers and Asia's security -- The USA as a great power -- Great power China? -- The perils and limits of great power status -- What about Russia, Japan and India? -- The importance of Asia's not so great powers -- Do the great powers matter that much? -- Conclusion -- 4 Money: Can Economic Interdependence Keep Asia Safe? -- Asia's economic interdependence -- The economic costs of Asian conflict -- Peace through interdependence? -- The political uses of economic relationships -- Economic coercion: sanctions in Asia -- Energy interdependence and insecurity -- Uneven effects on domestic security in Asia -- Conclusion -- 5 Guns: Will Military Technology Lead to New Conflict in Asia? -- The nuclear dimension of Asia's security -- Could nuclear war really happen in Asia? -- The competition for conventional military advantage in Asia -- Growing power projection capabilities -- High-tech: Asia's cyber challenges -- Low-tech: the problem of small arms -- A proliferation of drones? -- Conclusion -- 6 Rivalry: Will Territorial Competition and Nationalism Ruin Asia's Peace? -- The importance of territory -- Historical complexities -- Lighting the fire: nationalism -- No real solutions?.